A blueprint for action : the President's action plan for recovery from the January 1998 ice storm : Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Vermont.
Material type: TextPublication details: Washington, DC : Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1998Description: 31 p. : illDDC classification:- 363.349520974 21
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"The storms of January 1998 will not soon be forgotten by the people of Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Vermont. While ice storms are not uncommon to the regions, the system that battered the four-state region in early January was unprecedented. Below-freezing temperatures combined with record rainfall to cover an area extending from Western New York to Maine with solid ice. In some areas, more than three inches of ice coated the rural and urban landscape. The results were staggering. Massive tree limbs shattered under the weight of the ice, choking roads and trails with wood debris. Power lines snapped, leaving communities without electrical power in bone-chilling termper
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